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I suggest we chip in and buy the professor a t-shirt emblazoned with: "Banned in Russia, and Proud of It."

Putin has reason to fear her for the truth she brings to light.

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President Biden needs to openly defy the Meltdown Squad, proclaim the debt ceiling unconstitutional, and that he will order our bills paid no matter how much they whine. Let the Melts tell SCOTUS how it's great to be a deadbeat while we get on with running this country.

It's time, Joe. Drop the nuke.

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It’s ludicrous that media is framing this as “congress needs to do their jobs” rather than “republicans are promising to damage the United States economy and defund critical infrastructure no matter what compromises democrats accept.” Their negotiations should be made public.

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Hi everybody, first comment here after “lurking” for over a year. I’m a Dutch guy living in Germany, and the Letters by Prof. Cox Richardson have become my main source of news of America. Journalism the way she does it is rare these days.

I’m watching the debt ceiling crisis with disbelief and in agony. It’s unbelievable that the Republicans would crash the US economy, and collapse the world economy with it, but sure as hell they’re going to do it -because they WANT it. They want the ensuing carnage and chaos, heck, they’re probably already speculating on a dropping dollar, a rising yuan and exploding food prices. But most importantly: they will “own the libs”! Whatever bad happens, they and the American media will pin it on Biden - so yes, they got a “winning hand”. Now, slowly, I start to wonder… What did Putin promise them in return for destroying the world’s largest democracy?

P.S. Professor, you are famous! You should be proud to be on Putin’s little list :)

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I am joining the other early commenters in sending HUGE CONGRATULATIONS for making it onto Putin's shit list. This confirms exactly how important your work truly is. Keep shining the light of Democracy and know that your readers are ALL behind you!!

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I remember when Republicans loved democracy and our country. Compromise was always part of politics. Too many of today’s so-called Republicans seem to just want to tear down and win, but don’t care what this means for our world standing and future. Are they willing to destroy our economy and the finances of most Americans in order to blame Biden so they can win elections? I hate to think that’s true, but the sad preponderance of evidence seems to point that direction.

My heart is breaking.

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Being on that Russian list is a huge badge of honor. Wear it with pride!

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Not only is it time to invoke the 14th Amendment, it's also time to bring out the treason statute and have a predawn roundup of 50 House Republicans, starting with Dumbfuckingokiefornian McCarthy and his "leadership" crew of traitors, the Taliban 20, and the rest of the Fwee-cumb Kawkuss, and stuff them in the DC jail on charges of Treason. They have in fact declared war on the United States.

Where oh where are those FEMA camps for imprisoning the far right when we really need them?

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"Their attack on the economy is more than that, though: it is an attack on the nation’s global standing."

I feel like my head will explode in disbelief and horror, that the Rethugs are willing to SINK THE SHIP we are all sailing on, including themselves, just to spite President Biden and "own the libs."

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The debt ceiling imbroglio possibly resulting in a vastly weakened US so plays into the goals of both Putin and Xi Jinping that it is hard to believe either one or both do not have a hand in in it. Certainly Putin has done all he can tp upset the US political apple cart especially since he got his hooks into the perfect stooge; Donald Trump. He has a potential team of stooges in the House MAGA caucus. A master manipulator like Putin would have an easy time with those dopes.

It seems outlandish, but it's one way Republican intransigence on the debt limit/default makes any sense at all.

Whatever the motivation, it's still treason every day House Republicans resisit a clean debt limit bill.

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Although coincidentally the Republicans walked out of conference on the same day as Trump delivered his screed on blowing up negotiations, should we take it they were actually responding to Trump's command? And if so, their success or lack of it in negotiations so far has nothing to do with their action; they are trying to appease the former president rather than solve a political crisis of their own making.

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“Washington’s dysfunction” is just another version of the MSM “both sides” bs. It’s not Washington’s dysfunction of course, but the GQP, and still the MSM continues to carry water for the dyspatriots (they are not simply unpatriotic, but actively hostile to America, hence, dyspatriots).

You know what would be fun? Joe Biden not waiting until the last moment to announce that “the 14th Amendment makes Kevin the banty capon moot, and besides that, just eff the GQP,” then goes about his previously planned schedule, cue Chicken Little.

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The foolishness of attempting to blackmail the president is a clear photo that today's Republican't. And while the world is watching and waiting the magapublicans and their idiot leaders are forgetting; the American voters are watching too!

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Congrats, Heather on making The List. Frankly, I wish I were important enough to be on it myself.

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"It would also kill popular support for his return to a government that supports ordinary Americans rather than concentrating wealth at the top of the economy, as Republicans insist—contrary to economic studies—will expand the economy and benefit everyone. "

Aside from economic studies, where be these benefits? After more than 40 years of so called "Supply Side Economics" * are we in aggregate more financially secure and more secure in our employment? More secure and comfortable in retirement? Have an easier path to needed education and living-wage job opportunities? Can more easily afford a first home? Have the ranks of the "middle class" dramatically swelled ** ? Where's the beef? You have to wonder how we can succeed as a self-determining nation if the public cannot be bothered to connect the dots.

* Who supplies what in economics? Would you rather be marooned on a remote and deserted but habitable island with a carpenter, a farmer, a botanist, or a bank manager?

** Actually, since the "Reagan Revolution" the "middle class" has shrunk.

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The MAGA cabal understands nothing about economics, democracy, good government or even politics. The only thing they care about is "owning the libs," even if that means destroying the country and the the rest of the world that relies on the U.S. to be a stable leader. Someone needs to send these spoiled brats to their room until they learn how to be better behaved.

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